homey Wrote: > With regard to the testing of digital outputs, doing the "systems > approach" to the analysis is exactly my point.
That's fine, but you've presented this as a comparison between SB3's three outputs, which it isn't at all. It is a comparison between SB3's DAC and the one in your particular receiver! The effects of jitter do not really come into play in these measurements. Regarding the CS8416 - this is a standard s/pdif receiver, nothing special. The only approaches I've seen that measurably get rid of jitter are those which use an oscillator close to the DAC, i.e. word clock or asynchronoous resampling. Although with lower jitter you will see a tiny improvement in THD+N figures, it is not a suitable test for this, because the distortion caused by jitter (unlike that of an amplifier) is not harmonic in nature. If you want to measure jitter sensitivity after the DAC, check out the tests that stereophile uses. -- seanadams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26176 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
